Natural Quote by Charles Darwin

“...natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up…

— Richard Dawkins

It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is…

— Charles Darwin

Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species but blindly…

— Konrad Lorenz

... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved in the…

— Charles Darwin

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Thus, as I believe, natural selection will tend in the long run to reduce any part of the organisation, as soon as it becomes,…

— Charles Darwin

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

— Lynn Margulis

“But Natural Selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as…

— Charles Darwin

And yet, strange to say, now that the truth [of natural selection] is recognized by most cultivated people...now more than ever, in the history…

— Herbert Spencer

The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but…

— Paul Bloom

We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'

— Levi Strauss

“Darwinists are right to say that selection favours the organisms that leave alive the most progeny, but vigorous growth takes place within a constrained…

— James Lovelock